For over one hundred minutes, this film just fires on every cylinder. It's hilarious at times. It's tedious at others. The guiding principle seems to be: "Oh, the last five non sequiturs didn't connect? Hit 'em with another five!"

There's no real consistency on display here, and the television-honed instincts of its creator are betrayed at every turn: the film truly plays as four episodes of a comic series tied together and presented as a feature. (Also, despite convincing computer-generated images, MacFarlane has no visual imagination or dexterity as a director.) The enterprise is at its least interesting in fact when it tries to play by the rules. The human romance is a bore.

Even the most effective scenes have a slight empty quality, though, because the humor has no definite plan or order or purpose. Just machine-gun blasts of absurdity, and around 35 to 40 percent of the comic bullets hit their target.

Ted has its moments, but I would argue the red-band trailer is a more satisfying experience than the final film.

C

Joel McHale steals a natural Will Arnett role.

Is this film seriously going to be a word-of-mouth sensation on the scale of The 40-Year-Old Virgin and The Hangover? It just doesn't seem hilarious enough. Perhaps I was on the wrong wavelength. I did laugh--the cocaine-fueled Flash Gordon party, for instance--but not as much as I hoped, to be honest.

Wahlberg seems a shade miscast here. He's too fit, too confident and macho, to play this stoned loafer type. He's effective in comic roles which draw on and toy with his natural mean-streets intensity (I Heart Huckabees or the best scenes in The Other Guys), which doesn't happen here.

What a dingy role for Mila Kunis. Seth MacFarlane scores these A-list stars, but gives himself by far the best and most nuanced part, lol. And the funniest lines.

Oh, Giovanni Ribisi does a great Buffalo Bill style dance. Such a random and unpleasant storyline, though.

You know Mila Kunis has worked with Seth MacFarlane on Family Guy for over a decade, right? Also, that is exactly what I was thinking when Ribisi started dancing.

No, I didn't know she is part of Family Guy.

This is still a mediocre role for her.

Seth often gives himself the best lines on Family Guy too.

That's because he has 95% of the dialogue on family guy.

anyway this movie is not very good but it is very funny and i'm sure I'll pay to see the sequel

True, but no writer even tries anymore for anyone else. I'm pretty sure Seth Green literally telephones in his lines.

It was hilarious. And really, that's all it needed.

A-

Yep. This was the most I've laughed during any movie this year.

**** (A-)

Could've done without McHale though. He's given absolutely nothing to do.

This was awesome. The airplane scene is just brilliant! It even has the same kind of blurriness the original had. TubbyMcFatFuck is also my new favorite thing to say to an overweight person

David no "Click to read article" come on! I feel like you don't post without a link

The best scene in this movie is when Ted is revived at the end and pretends to be Thegun for a minute. Fucking classic.

Was it fun playing Giovanni Ribisi's son in the film?

Yes. Who wouldn't want to share scenes with a CGI bear, Hollywood's sixth favorite Scientologist, and the leader of the Funky Bunch? An actor's dream.

generally stupid, outside of the "my cushy 38k a year salary" & taylor lautner

Absolutely hilarious. I pretty much died during every exchange between Ted and the fat kid ("TubbyMcFatFuck", "Back off, Susan Boyle", "that's a...really dumb fucking question").

I know this film isn't intended as a shining beacon of internal logic, but I found it annoying how Ted beats the shit out of Wahlberg in one of the film's best scenes, but then has zero physical presence or power when he's abducted by Giovanni Ribisi.

I find you annoying.

All right, lol.

my 38k a salary' made me LOL.

tom skerrit? flash gordon? coulda picked much funnier 80s references.

Loses momentum as it progresses but an often gut-bustingly hilarious laughfest. The waning quality of Family Guy of late hasn't negatively impacted Seth Macfarlane here. Mark Wahlberg (who has made quite the impression in comedies recently) does a great job as the human counterpoint, while Mila Kunis is as delightful as ever. This is going to have great word-of-mouth, the crowd reacted incredibly well. B+

It's ok. I'm with Zingy -- best things in the movie had to do with the fat kid and Ted.

Saw it again. It holds up. It might have even gotten funnier. Packed house and the crowd ate it up.

The first half is great, Mila comes out swinging with a few good lines, it has a solid pace and focus on the humor. Unfortunately McFarlane seems to think he can, y'know, do stuff outside of comedy and it doesn't work. He can sometimes create legitimate tension or drama within family guy but the more serious/thriller elements, and attempted emotion is dull and ineffective. Kunis completely devolves into a cliche bitch who doesn't get a joke after 15min in, Wahlberg is far from the best actor for this role, and the surprising amount of sexism and nostalgia and progressive lack of contemporary/liberal view-points are highly frustrating from McFarlane.

I liked it a lot on the whole, these are just all of my complaints. I thought 80% of the jokes landed I just wish there had been more consistency and less creepiness/drama. I laughed a ton and the rampant support of pot made me very happy.

Also, it was really awful to go full jersey shore and then keep the bitch around for absolutely nothing. She barely gets a line after that (or doesn't at all?) but is maintained as a character and having ted continue to date her after the diner really pisses me off.